These changes had a dire effect.
Israel's public security minister, Gilad Erdan, said: "The terror attack today is a severe and dire event in which all red lines have been crossed.
For anyone else, listening to the guffaws at Tory conference feels like being a teenager at some dire event your parents have dragged you to, and having to smile through gritted teeth while screaming silently inside your own head.
In that dire event, Bayer executives would certainly regret their self-interested insistence on being the only U.S. supplier.
But it's new and especially bad -- as Dorothy Parker once said, not just terrible but terrible with raisins in it -- when they support it for no special reason, addressing no particular dire event or emergency, but just, you know, because.
And in a world fraught with such dire events as the Taliban executing a couple for trying to elope, a film that offers a touch of enlightenment is worth talking about (with a small crew of journos) and writing about as well.
The corkscrew of a narrative follows Donnie through dire events that aggravate his anguish; he causes a scene almost every time he interacts with others.
When attention and sympathy decreases to focus on other members of the group, a user may announce that other dire events have transpired, including the illness or death of a close family member.
A corkscrew, time-traveling narrative follows Donnie through dire events and uneasy relationships, in which he is accompanied by a six-foot rabbit, but it's Mr. Kelly's "compulsion to solder melancholy to weightlessness that constantly trips up the movie" (Elvis Mitchell).
On an edition of Kent Brockman's talk show Smartline, Burns is allowed an opening tirade and he threatens dire events if the strike is not concluded.
In the absence of official candor and a free press, speculation about bombings and other dire events runs rampant in China.
